As part of our NELI story for this week, Don’t Wake Up the Tiger, we have been exploring floating. In the story, the animals have to float over the tiger to reach the other side without waking him up. This ignited our curiosity as we became intrigued about objects which float and sink. The children developed planning skills as they suggested filling up a large container with water and found objects to investigate whether they float or sink. We had a wonderful time exploring and questioning which objects float and which ones sink, with many of us explaining to our friends what has happened using the correct vocabulary.

Could you explore this further at home? Maybe you could add toys to the bathtub one evening and explore which ones float and which ones sink. Can your child use the correct word to describe this? We would love to hear about what you discover.

Following these explorations we decided to consider which objects would float through the air. The children loved trying to pop the bubbles as they watched them float across the room and were all eager to be the first to catch the balloon as it floated across their heads.